aral

ViolaB, 1 year ago to random German

Mag den heutigen Tag nicht.

Weil gescheiterter Suizidversuch, Jahrestag.

:/

aral, 1 year ago to random

I don’t believe I still have to explain to non-billionaires that billionaires don’t have their best interests at heart.

I mean, it explains a lot if this is still the point we’re stuck at.

aral, 1 year ago to random

A billionaire does things for many reasons. None of those are in your interests unless you also happen to be a billionaire.

The sooner you learn this, the sooner we can start doing something about it.

aral, 1 year ago to random

Anyone else getting swarms of email notifications today that Dependabot was enabled on their GitHub repositories?

#github #dependabot

JugglingWithEggs, 1 year ago to random

“We say that Florida is where woke goes to die.”

During his meeting with Ms Badenoch, Mr DeSantis said she “complimented what we are doing in Florida”.

“She committed that it is what they are trying to do in Britain.,” he said.

“I commend her and her efforts to make sure that this is not corrupting British society.”

—————

The moment a clear link between #DeSantis autocracy and UK was made.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ron-desantis-badenoch-uk-interview-b2329668.html?amp

Geri, 1 year ago to random

There are a little over 6,000 streets in the city of #Glasgow.

Not a single one of them has made an application for a street party to celebrate the #Coronation

Not one

chargrille, 1 year ago to random

There's a lot of misinformation circulating that obscures or softens Jack Dorsey's relationship to Bluesky, Bluesky to Twitter, &/or Dorsey to Musk/Twitter.

On Dec 11, 2019, Dorsey announced on Twitter that he'd started Bluesky as part of Twitter, to serve Twitter, & funded by Twitter $, "to develop an open & decentralized standard for social media." (One already existed. Clearly the goal was one he controlled.)

"The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this [Bluesky] standard."

"But the standard Twitter app isn’t the only platform whose future Musk now controls. Over the past three years, Twitter Inc. has also been funding a decentralized social networking project called Bluesky — and it finally seems close to bearing fruit. But under Twitter’s new leadership, with its original champions gone, its future prospects seem shaky. Bluesky was launched under Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s leadership back in 2019, and its initial manager was Parag Agrawal, then Twitter’s CTO and later Dorsey’s replacement. The goal was to build a decentralized social network protocol that could eventually hook into Twitter — making it interoperable with other networks unrelated to the company. To maintain independence from Twitter as a business, Bluesky was set up as an independent entity producing nonproprietary open-source work — even as it was funded by Twitter. Bluesky was formally organized as a public benefit LLC led by software engineer Jay Graber in late 2021, and as of April, it had received $13 million from Twitter."
"Bluesky has always seemed like a quirky pet cause of Jack Dorsey, and that impression has only gotten stronger over time. Dorsey imagined decentralization as a way to sidestep increasingly bitter content moderation debates among law- and policy-makers. Decentralized social networking protocols like ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon) already existed, and to the extent Bluesky has a unique vision, it reflects ideas like Dorsey’s love of “algorithmic choice” or competing social media moderation algorithms. He told Musk in a"
["Before Musk reluctantly bought Twitter, former CEO Jack Dorsey funded and spun off Bluesky, a public benefit company tasked with building an open-source, decentralized social media protocol that he wanted Twitter itself to eventually operate on. Bluesky remains invite only to access but is now starting to let in more users. After setting up my account recently, wanted to talk with CEO Jay Graber. She agreed to answer some of my questions this week for what I believe is her first interview since she joined to lead the project in August 2021."

aral, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to fediverse

Which of these Twitter alternatives is not funded by the douchebag billionaire behind Twitter?

#fediverse #bluesky #nostr

aral, 1 year ago to SmallWeb

I can’t fucking wait to get Domain* out the door this year so folks (including me) can deploy Kitten** apps.

(Me deploying Kitten apps is trivial. But I won’t be deploying them until everyone can. And we won’t be hosting them until any organisation can. That’s how you decentralise. By building systems that don’t favour you. By decentring yourself first. Even though that’s a metric fuck-tonne harder to do.)

• https://codeberg.org/domain/app
  ** https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

#SmallWeb #Kitten

EU_Commission, 1 year ago to random

🛂 We want to make travelling across EU borders smoother.

That’s why we are launching a public consultation on the digitalisation of travel documents. Your contributions will help establish a common standard in the Schengen area.

Digital travel documents can be easier to issue than physical ones and can facilitate border checks.

This initiative aims to decide on a common format for digital travel documents.

#EUHaveYourSay until June 28: https://europa.eu/!8CGq6H

A GIF showing different EU passports with the superimposed sentence: "Digitalisation of travel documents."

mikarv, 1 year ago to random

As the Home Office runs a hackathon to look for ‘AI’ transcription/translation tools to reduce the #asylum backlog without a step change in investment (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog), @restofworld reports that… surprise surprise, machine translation is jeopardising asylum claims among Afghans in the US! https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-translation-errors-afghan-refugees-asylum/

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to random

Jack Dorsey explaining exactly why no single company should own a social media platform.

kyle, 1 year ago to random

I host my own email, DNS, website, and many other services, so I figure I should probably host my own mastodon instance as well. Plus as @aral always says, it's good for the Fediverse to have more smaller instances.

So I'm going to attempt the Mastodon server migration now, which means if you follow me, it should automatically move you. If not, you can follow me @kyle.

aral, 1 year ago to random

Watching the band playing at the Big Brother Awards.

Update: it’s starting now.

https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023

#bba23 #BigBrotherAwards #liveStream #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

ana_valdi, 1 year ago to random

🤖💎 After attending one of the biggest venues on data centres, this picture clearly reflects the narrative of private actors:

"Data is the gold of the future. We treat it like diamonds."

Extractivism, data and natural resources are very much related in the digital landscape.